WIBW News

Gray Television, Inc.

Contains ads

About this app

The local news experience you’ve come to expect from WIBW has been updated! The latest Breaking News, Severe Weather and sports is available wherever you go with the WIBW News app. This updated app brings more features so with a few simple touches, you can read and watch the latest news or share it with family and friends.

This app is ad supported.

Ratings and reviews

This app has become very slightly more stable since my previous review in 2018. It has also been filled with more ads, including some that are clearly designed to look like news stories. WIBW's reporting as an organization continues to be underwhelming, but the app does provide access to one of the two main sources for local news without a paywall. The catch is that only recent stories are available. You need to visit the website to access anything not at the top of their sorting algorithm.

I know ads pay for content, so I don't mind them. However, I would like an app that can turn off their ads during an emergency. When the sirens are going off in my community and I'm nowhere near a TV, a 30 second ad before seeing where the tornado is touching down is a very long time.

The photo submission page does doesn't work. Tap the "Browse files" tab and nothing happens. Thanks for helping me half an hour trying to send you an accident photo to replace the hokwy file photo the station used -- a neighorhood shot for a story that happened on the Interstate in wide-open country.

What's new

TV:
Improvements to app navigation
Improvements to app responsiveness
Added more previous newscast options

Mobile:
Changes to the livestream player